I’m a research technician / lab manager in Experimental Evolution, Ecology and Behaviour in Tobias Uller’s group. My tasks include assistance in all the research related things, administrative tasks, and also the research itself.
I’m from the Finnish Museum of Natural History (Helsinki University), where I’ll defend my PhD this autumn. In my thesis I studied phylogeny of boreal and arctic marine invertebrates and fishes. The focus was on trans-Arctic dispersal between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans in the timescale of past 5 Million years, and on the phenomena resulting from that (e.g. genetic diversity, cryptic species, introgression following secondary contacts). With my background in phylogeography, I’m especially fascinated by the evolutionary and ecological consequences of dispersal and adaptation to new environments.
